Re: [Qemu-devel] Connecting vde and LAN

[Jim C. Brown]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:49:08AM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> It you forget about Ethernet and instead send the packet as a raw IP 
> packet then it should reach the host, but you must then fake ARP 
> responses on behalf of the host.
> 

I just tried this with libnet 1.1 (1.1.2.1 to be specific), and it doesn't
seem to work. Pings do not go through. I only handled the vde -> host case
though, do I need to do anything special for host -> vde packets?

I'll try again with libnet 1.0.2a

> >I guess we should just do it the hard way - when grabbing packets that are
> >meant for the host, fake the request (fake a ping, manually do the socket 
> >call,
> >etc) and send the result back to the vde.
> 
> You mean diverting them to slirp? Some additional magics for ARP will be 
> required.. also it doesn't solve host talking to the guest..

Yeah, I'm not sure how to handle the host -> guest case yes.

> 
> Regards
> Henrik
> 
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